attacking

[Liquid_Sky]

That is curious. I usually have difficulty defending. Attacking I find easy, but it does depend on what nation you are playing. I like to use the terrain as best as possible to keep my units from being seen until the last possible moment. I try to hit the line suddenly, and with as many units as possible, to minimize defensive artillery (give him too many targets to shoot at).

I usually use a stack maxed surrounded by broken down companies, to disquise it. I prefer assaulting to shooting. If I get a lot of engineers I will stack those together...they can do some awesome damage when assaulting.

I will sometimes hit the main objective head on, in force..other times I may pretend to hit it in force, but have my main attack group try to outflank. I never hit bunkers unless I have to, instead I will try to isolate them. I will pull back units that hit yellow fatigue to rest just behind the front, or if I dont have enough, I will pull everything back a hex or two to rest.

I usually keep my attacking infantry in battalions.

I seem to only play campaigns, so I will send hurt units back to rest and refit. Usually takes about 20-30 turns to regain all fatigue, and end up at 70% strength, no matter how shot up you were. I try to never lose a unit permanently.

A good scenario to play to learn how to attack is any of the Normandy beach landings. Especially Omaha. You will become a master of the assault.

Usually it is fatigue that the defender cannot control, as his units are in constant fighting....so managing fatigue is a good way to defeat the enemy.